In this ride 1 of the Battle of the Somme motorcycle tour we are touring through the Somme Valley and between Arras and Amiens where the battlefields of the Western front during WWI lie. We have 3 stops at moving memorials in this ride and if you want to do them all, LEAVE EARLY! The ride is already 220 km / 135 miles of nice riding and you will definitely spend some time at the stops we added to this ride.
Highlights Ride 1:
0:00 intro
0:34 Part 1: Arras to Mémorial Terre Neuvien with the danger tree
2:59 Mémorial Terre Neuvien
6:39 Part 2: Terre Neuvien to Villers-Bretonneux and Memorial Australien
9:23 Villers-Bretonneux
10:02 Memorial Australien
11:24 Part 3: Memorial Australien to Amiens
12:04 Amiens
13:10 Part 4: Amiens to Avesnes-le-Comte
15:51 Avesnes-le-Comte
17:17 Part 5: Avesnes-le-Comte to Vimy
18:33 Memorial National du Canada a Vimy
20:35 Part 6: Vimy to Arras – END
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3 Comments
Leuke film. Mooi die nieuwe insta360 X3 beelden. Leuk gedaan met de nieuwe mogelijkheden. Top
Prachtige rit door het historisch belangrijke deel van NW Frankrijk. Ook de te bezoeken oorlogsmonumenten en battlefields zijn zeer interssant en indrukwekkend. Arras is een prachtig herbouwde stad nadat het centrum totaal was plat gebombardeerd .
Een nu leuke en levendige stad met veel fijne horeca instellingen. Een aanrader deze Quazy Rides trip ! 👍
We got this by e-mail from Ron. Thx for this and hope you will be able to enjoy more tours soon!
I did this Quazy rides on the first of October 2023. A very nice en impressive tour. Personal I have a preference for trips in the mountains, but this trip is very much worth to ride. Good roads. Also, a good mixture with some smaller roads.Nice views and also memorable points of interests. We had lunch in Amiens. A lot of restaurants, but very crowdy. We found a table at Le Baratin where we could sit happily together.
After we had a good lunch, we took off for the second part of the tour. In the end of the tour, we stopped at the Memorial Canadian Vimy and walked through the area of the trenches from the first world war.
Very impressive. A place where hundreds of thousands off people lost their lives for our freedom and now looking so peacefully and quietly.
In Arras, we stayed at hotel Le Dome. A very nice hotel. I had a chamber with a double bed and a shower. Enough room and very stylish. The breakfast was good, certainly for French terms. Arras is a middle great town with a very nice center with a lot of restaurants and bars. A great place for an evening out.